Word: soiling
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...IRONWORKERS don't write books. Everyone is very eager for workers to do so, of course. Upper-middle-class writers take "sabbaticals" to soil their hands and find out what it's really like; reporters loiter nervously in bars in Queens waiting for something to be said so they can sneak outside and put it in their notebooks; sociologists write about it from the outside. But except for verbal records like those collected by Studs Terkel, or stuff like Nate Shaw's All God's Dangers, you just can't get no genuine working-class lit in the U.S.A...
...been a mystery. But his Madrid notes set down the method in full detail. He invented a revolutionary system of doing it in one piece, designing special furnaces and bracing systems and winches for it, and even a way of casting it buried upside down in the marshy Milanese soil without cracking the mold. It becomes clear that Leonardo, despite Michelangelo's bitching about his ineptitude as a sculptor, knew exactly how to make the horse and was prevented from executing his plan only because, in the end, he had no bronze: it had all been requisitioned for cannon...
...interesting to hear President Ford's complaints at the United Nations concerning the efforts of the Arab countries to curb oil production in order to hold up the price. Remember a few years ago when a certain wealthy country urged its farmers to put land in the soil bank to curb food production...
...YORK is an urban wilderness. A forest of skyscrapers supports a canopy of smog, the streets are a desolate and forbidding territory, human artifices like subway tunnels and telephone booths are derelict endeavors slowly returning to the soil, while primitive creatures roam about. Yes sir, this is the new frontier, and Charlie Bronson is its trailblazing pioneer in Death Wish...
...incident might have passed without serious challenge had not Anderson's lawyers been able to produce eyewitness reports, photographs and even a movie film to back up their contention that a Canadian landed immigrant had been seized on Canadian soil. After five days, the U.S. Customs Service finally acknowledged that Anderson had indeed been captured "a few yards" across the border. At week's end, after the Ottawa government complained that the seizure had been a violation of Canadian sovereignty, the State Department returned Anderson to Canada...